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Thermal drone footage shows a Microsoft AI datacenter powering its operations with illegal generators
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2026
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The amount of marketing material 2013-2020 (and ongoing probably) talking about how mega scale datacentres were so much greener than collocation or non cloud was significant.
“We‘ll host your shit with a PUE of 1.05 and it’ll be all solar and hydro”
Reality is gas and coal and PUE 2
There's no reason we can't force them to meet this.
Don't allow them to break ground on the datacenter until after they build renewable power plants that can produce 200% the daily energy requirements of the data center.
We can make data centers not just green, but beneficial to the grid.